Re: sendmail aliases

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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: David Hláèik Sent: April 1, 2008 16:00
> >
> > or just restart sendmail is enought?
> >
> I do not believe that that will work. The databases are normally
> only updated on demand when you issue the newaliases command.
> restarting sendmail will just use the exiting database without
> the changes you did to the /etc/aliases file.

If you use the init scripts, the newaliases command is run as part of the 
"start" or "reload" functions:

> grep newaliases /etc/init.d/sendmail 
		/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
		/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
>

A "make" in /etc/mail is also included.

Cheers
Chris
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